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Where is Nico? You were right. Tell your friend he gets a chocolate frog on me. I guess I understand why WB would do it, but I wish I knew more about the scene and its context in the plot. Obviously it would definitely show that the world is no longer safe. However, if Death Eaters just attack the Burrow, it would seem weird. I hope they go to the Burrow for a particular purpose, other than just trying to kill Harry. I just don’t know what that purpose is.

I think that’s ok. As long it’s not something invented. with J.K. blessing everything will be good!!!

But I’m still so angry about Cho/Harry relationship. Now it seems that she’s the poor girl and that it’s not her fault about anything. Do you remember how she was jelaous in the book and that hilarious chapter in Hogesmeade? and nothing of that in OOTP!grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Well this is just going to slowly eat away at me till I know what the scene is…how long till the movie? lol

I was wondering how WB were gonna include the effects of the DE’s on the outside world. I imagined that this kind of info from the first chapter (which is probably the most dispensable chapter in the book) would be grouped with info convayed by the order or harry’s friends or DD into another scene at hogwarts or the burrow, so I’m pretty happy with this move by WB

“We don’t often have things that aren’t in the book,”..are they stupid?..they have an incredible imagination..__

Matea,don’t worry.Katie Leung comes back in HBP in order to fix the plotholes of OotP and show that Harry is moving on now and Katie said that her part is brief because they want to show that Harry does like Ginny and not Cho from this film.

Now, I guess that except for the Burrow scene from what David Barros has said…there WILL be some scenes with disasters in the Muggle World from Death Etaers and Voldemort. Right? He just seems to mean that…And it seems great.It will give a darker tone in the film except for the lessons with Dumbledore and the whole Snape/Draco plotline.

It’s definitely necessary in film to create new ways of conveying information, as a lot of devices that work in books just don’t work in movies. It’s great they’re making an such effort to keep all of these ideas in the film though I hope its not at the expense of key plot points. We’re all going to be dying to find out what the scene is now!

I was very scared when I saw the little snippet of this on the home page, but reading David Barron’s quote, I don’t think it’s going to be bad anymore. It sounds like it’s going to be okay.

At least, I hope it does…. >_<

I can’t really imagine they’ll send DEs to attack because that’s a book 7 moment, but who knows. If it’s ‘pivotal’, maybe some disaster hits the village that the Weasley’s live at? And do we think that Scrimgeour is not in HBP (?), so the Christmas scene at the Burrow would be pointless otherwise?

I can also imagine them listening to the wizarding wireless news over Christmas dinner or something, maybe a news flash interrupting that singer that Mrs Weasley likes (actually that would be really cool of they could get a singer to do a jazzy ‘hot cauldron full of love’ number!). The wireless is a good way of conveying information about the effects of DEs. I liked how they put the wireless into OotP in the common room. I really liked all the common room stuff in OotP, with the music, it made it more of a real environment :)

Clearly, adding additional scenes to a film of this kind isn’t something they ought to do lightly, but if it’s in keeping with the tone of the source material and is done intelligently, I have no problem with it. One of my absolute favourite scenes of the series so far was the sequence they added to Prisoner of Azkaban of Harry tracking Pettigrew on the Marauder’s Map; it really helped deepen the mystery of the Pettigrew/Black story in a way that was concise, tense and unexpected, yet felt totally in keeping with the books, reminding me a lot of “The Egg and the Eye” from GoF. If the scene they add to HBP can match that for quality (if the script extract above is legit, it seems to read OK), then I’ll be fine with it. :)

Maybe this scene is supposed to be one of the incidences later reported in teh news where the ruckus in the “West country” is thought to be a hurricane? Of course I thought the hurricane activity was supposed to be a bit more toward the Wiltshire area of England.

The scene given above (thanks, John & Icbaseball) not only adds the element of danger (and introduces Fenrir!) but develops the relationship between Harry and Ginny, which is also needed. However, I cannot imagine Hermione referring to Mr. Weasley as “Arthur”; she’s quite a bit too proper for that, isn’t she?

The vanishing cabinet reference seems pretty obvious, but, given the restrictions of film, is probably unavoidable.

Yeah, I thought Hermione calling him Arthur was odd too and when I saw this on IMDB last month I thought it was fake. However with Fenrir being cast now and this story confirming this piece of leaked script we know the guy on IMDB is 100% legit.

I think it might look good actually. It sounds good at least. What I read in the imdb boards was okay and there was some Harry/Ginny action and everything so at least that sounded pretty good :)

But I’m always weary of additional scenes because they usually mean that something from the book is left out. Oh well, there is no point in getting upset at this stuff I guess.

I think it sounds interesting and if Jo gave her blessing then that is all that matters to me, she is the one I trust when it comes to this stuff. Besides we did know that she reads through the scripts to make sure nothing is completely out of wack.

ginevra I thought the same thing too! I don’t Hermione ever calls Ron’s dad “Arthur”. She and Harry always call him either “Ron’s dad” or Mr Weasley. I know because it always sounded weird to me; in Spain we don’t generally call people “Mr” and “Mrs”, especially not our friend’s parents. Maybe that’s just a placeholder and they’ll say “Mr Weasley” in the movie?

The scene is new in the sense its not in the book, but really is a combination of all that information-dropping in the book about deaths and muggles being terrorized. Im cool with that.

Im guessing it means the Other Minister is definitely not happening?

Jo’s blessing is all that is needed for me to accept whatever it is they are filming. I agree that certain elements in the book do not transfer well to film, so if they have found away to add that tension in and Jo has agreed to it than I’m all for it.

I don’t mind Hermione saying Arthur to mr Weasley. I don’t know the rules about this in England, but in Holland we ussually call people by there first names if we know them well enough, unless there really posh or something. (And they call Lupin Remus in the DH, so)

This scene is also a good way of making the film a bit more exciting. Normally the action doesn’t really begin until the last half hour or so.

Ooh, that’s fine with me! I like action anyway. ;D